I was on another forum, and the question was asked 'why do all the manufacturers keep dropping some of our favorite features?'. I thought about this for a bit, then I said 'Maybe because we spend all our time talking about things we DON'T like, and so little about what we DO...'

How do they know not to drop it when we don't tell them we like it?! So... Why not take a little time to describe what your favorite OS features on your arranger are, and hopefully, they might STILL be on the NEXT arranger your manufacturer makes...

An obscure feature to me is very important..

Patch remain..a feature that allows you to change a sound and have the previous sound hold till you play the new sound..A lot of boards[without mentioning brands] cut the patch off[very annoying]..

The other obscure feature is the proper allocation of voices[polyphony]..

I found Roland to be my choice for these features..

[This message has been edited by Fran Carango (edited 08-28-2007).]

Favorite feature: Super Articulated voices...it would be nice to see even more of them implemented in the future.

A Yamaha exclusive.

SA Harmonica and SA Violin/fiddle would be very cool.

Ian

[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 08-28-2007).]

Keys of course: 61, 76, 88 .... who cares!

Fran, completely agree with you about new Tones not cutting off old ones. Even some Roland WSs don't allow this, and it ruins their effectiveness as live keyboards...

Combine it with the use of the Sostenuto pedal, and you can do some quite complex things even with just one hand...

One of my favorites... Multi-button pedalboard inputs. I can't imagine using an arranger without one...

Scott.... let it go, man, let it go....

Real time control knobs like the PSR-E403...would be nice to see these on the higher end arrangers...especially with the SA voices...cool!

Also to be able to assign filter and/or tone sweeps to the mod wheel(like the PSR-740), and/or to a foot pedal (volume type) as well.

Ian

the balance knob on my new roland e 80 that will balance the keyboard right hand voices with the accompaniement voices. This is the first keyboard I ever had it on and I think it is invaluable. That is just one of many things that come to mind.
Bebop

The way I can edit and create styles on the
G70 to my own taste is very important for
me.

A usefull feature I loved on the Pa80, was the ability to trigger a fill-in by the velocity on the lower part of the keybord in arranger mode.